ABSTRACT

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common condition among women. This, in combination with an increase in public awareness, has more and more women actively seeking treatment. Although there are many available treatment options for sui, the introduction of less morbid anti-incontinence procedures has led to a rise in the utilization of surgery to combat this problem. In particular, the synthetic midurethral sling (MUS) has become popular over the last decade, owing to high efficacy, minimal patient morbidity, and technical simplicity [1]. This in turn has led to an increase in the number of patients having postoperative voiding issues. Postsurgical voiding dysfunction (VD) can be transient and is generally lower than historically reported, but obstruction requiring intervention will still unavoidably occur.